Audio Description of Art : The Role of Mental Imagery and Embodiment
(2021) Exploring visual art auditively. Art, language, and sounds in culture and museums In Lund University Cognitive Studies p.1-19- Abstract
- How can we make visual art accessible for audiences with visual impairment and blindness? Can audio description help blind and visually impaired (BVI) audiences to understand and experience art? Which ingredients must AD contain to evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal mental images? Can AD engage the target audiences and contribute to their aesthetic experience and enjoyment? What other means are there to enhance inclusion and immersion? The paper focuses on how audio description can evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal images via verbal descriptions of art and thereby contribute to an embodied aesthetic experience for the BVI audiences. It introduces research on image perception, image description, and mental... (More)
- How can we make visual art accessible for audiences with visual impairment and blindness? Can audio description help blind and visually impaired (BVI) audiences to understand and experience art? Which ingredients must AD contain to evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal mental images? Can AD engage the target audiences and contribute to their aesthetic experience and enjoyment? What other means are there to enhance inclusion and immersion? The paper focuses on how audio description can evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal images via verbal descriptions of art and thereby contribute to an embodied aesthetic experience for the BVI audiences. It introduces research on image perception, image description, and mental imagery, relevant for audio description; summarise guidelines and recommendations for audio description of art; and offers authentic examples of AD of art tailored for the target audiences. The paper underlines the importance of reception studies and discusses the issue of inclusion and multi-sensory experiences. (Less)
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- author
- Holsanova, Jana LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-08-30
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- visual art, accessibility, audio description, audio guide, mental images, aesthetic experience, blind and visually impaired audiences, embodiment, multi-sensory experience, image perception, image description
- in
- Lund University Cognitive Studies
- issue
- 181
- pages
- 1 - 19
- publisher
- Lund University Cognitive Studies
- conference name
- Exploring visual art auditively. Art, language, and sounds in culture and museums
- conference location
- Malmö, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2021-05-20 - 2021-05-21
- ISSN
- 1101-8453
- project
- Discourse, vision and cognition
- Bildbeskrivning
- Syntolkning - forskning och praktik
- How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events
- Audio description: to elicit mental images for those who do not see
- Audio description for accessible communication/ Syntolkning för tillgänglig kommunikation
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4177b7a6-ada7-43c0-8e33-bf9cc2d3bd7c
- alternative location
- https://www.lucs.lu.se/publications/lund-university-cognitive-studies/
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- 2021-08-14 19:58:22
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- 2023-11-06 14:05:40
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